Abducted!

Thousands of ordinary people claim to have had contact with
aliens from other worlds. Response to these claims varies from
skeptics who make every effort to ridicule the phenomena to
true believers who accept it at face value and believe the
authorities know more than they are willing to admit.

There are notable similarities between reports of abductions
and accounts of nightmares. The order in which events are
remembered, the manner in which they occur without apparent
cause or context, are typically like the dream state. These
dramatic events seem to have little if any effect upon the
physical world beyond the person who has experienced them.

People who claim to have been abducted are worried by loss of
time, vague memories, feelings of being trapped or restrained
on a table, and unusual and unknown sounds from the darkness.
They become irritable, often unable to concentrate, suffer loss
of short-term memory and forget the simplest things such as
numbers, names and dates.

Some begin to have recurring dreams from the years of their
adolescence. Others claim to hear voices and odd sounds,
apparently real and nearby, issuing from beings or objects not
visible to the five senses.

Most disturbing of all, actual marks and scars have been found
on the skin of some who believe they have been physically
examined by aliens. A number of people have awakened to find
painful bruises on the fleshy portion of their noses. These
bruises, while tender and annoying, may leave no marks and
vanish in a day or two.

Sometimes a red spot with a small dark puncture wound will
appear in the center of the bruise, suggesting the bruise may
have been caused by a hypodermic needle or similar instrument
during an examination of which the person is consciously
unaware.

Many of these people feel separated from the rest of society by
the very strangeness of the experience and by negative emotions
of which they are reluctant to speak: anxiety about the next
abduction or examination; worry about the medical problems that
might occur as a result of having been examined in an alien
environment, and real fear for the future for themselves, their
families and humankind at large.

Despite the great distances between groups who believe they
have been abducted or who believe abductions are occurring, the
barriers separating them from the rest of us have made the
abduction phenomena an international social movement.

Topics of discussion or interest include: how to avoid future
abductions; how to discuss the subject with children,
especially if they, too, are having abduction experiences, and
how to cope with the problems they have in acknowledging their
abductee status to family and friends without being
characterized as odd or actually insane.

The suggestion that accounts of abductions are hoaxes concocted
for fame and profit can be generally dismissed since few
abductees seek publicity or invite the media to share their
anguished memories, knowing they are more likely to meet with
ridicule than offers of money and fame.

Additionally, the claim that most, if not all, the abductees
are of doubtful sanity can also be generally dismissed since
the preponderance of psychiatric evidence to date does not
support such views.

To begin an investigation of any event, particularly an unusual
nonrepeatable event such as the sighting of UFOs, we must
remember that, lacking photographic evidence, we will be
dealing with only the memory of the event as perceived through
conventional senses.

Abductions, particularly if perceived only in some unconscious
portion of the mind, are even more difficult to investigate
since the abductee cannot provide any evidence or details to
support the claim.

Claims of abduction fall into three categories: 1) Hoaxes. The
abduction did not occur; 2) True abduction. Person was actually
abducted but may or may not be aware of the event; 3) Imagined
abduction. Person was NOT abducted but may believe an
abduction actually occurred.

Hoaxes, unfortunately, consume many hours or weeks of the
investigator's valuable time while producing only negligible
results, thus hindering serious UFO research. One can only
wonder if these hoaxes are not being perpetrated by those who
wish to discredit the pro-UFO groups.

True abductions are generally revealed by hypnosis or
psychiatric examination, although a number of victims are able
to remember at least portions of the abduction on a conscious
level. These memories may include incisions, cell sampling,
gynecological or fetal interference, interbreeding and other
traumatic events. Often these people may recall events of
abduction beginning as far back as early childhood. Recurring
dreams during adolescence and into early adulthood,
particularly if of "monsters" and suffocating, or of being
restrained or stabbed, or of walking or floating aimlessly
through large, old, empty houses, while not proof, may provide
clues to abductions.

Imagined abductions, where the victim believes he or she has
been abducted but has no physical scars or specific details and
cannot produce evidence that they were absent from their home
or city for a length of time, are puzzling but, if sincerely
claimed, should be treated with respect and given the same
treatment as a real abduction.

These types of "abductions" might actually be telepathic
contact, precognitive episodes or out-of-body experiences
induced or initiated by 1) aliens, or 2) foreign or domestic
intelligence agencies. In other words, ideas, scenes and sounds
may have been implanted in the victim's mind during telepathic
contact so they afterwards believe they were abducted, taken
aboard an alien spaceship and examined or interbred.

While both abduction and telepathic contact may leave the
victims with exactly the same memories and lingering fears, the
events differ substantially in that the abductee's experience
was on primarily a physical level and the telepathic contact
was on a purely mental level.

One clue to physical abduction and medical examination may be
gleaned from experiments conducted prior to and after the
Challenger disaster. It was discovered that certain fertilized
chicken eggs did not develop in space and that others produced
healthy chicks with slight vertigo problems that left them
unable to balance during roost.

Could it be that the aliens, having spent a great deal of time
in space, are no longer able to produce fertilized eggs or that
space born alien children are being born with serious
handicaps? Could it be that they now require eggs fertilized in
Earth's gravity by Earth women in order to produce children
capable of surviving in space?

And could the telepathic contact episodes be experiments to
discover which of us is most sensitive to communion of the
minds? Could it be a selection process by intelligence agencies
to find future telepathic cosmonauts among your children and
grandchildren who may carry the same inherent abilities?

While there is no proof for the theory, it is possible that
abductions and telepathic contacts may be executed by aliens
and intelligence agencies either jointly or separately for
widely different reasons. The aliens may be searching for new
genes (suggesting a long period of interplanetary travel and
fear of inbreeding) and the intelligence agencies may be
searching for individuals (present and future) who will carry
the human seed to the far fields of space. Because the
distances traveled may be great and the time spent on the
journey long, they may also need spare parts and spare genes or
sperm and eggs ready to incubate at the appropriate time.

If fertilization in space is risky or even impossible, second
generations of pilot and crew will have to be prepared before
the ship leaves Earth; that is, seeds stored in containers for
future incubation. If human eggs can only be fertilized in
space on, say, a 50/50 basis (50% abortion rate), future female
cosmonauts would be kept busy on the nest and have little time
for anything else if they were expected to produce the
succeeding crew!

While no criteria has been established for the study of
telepathic contact, there is sufficient evidence to suggest
that something or someone is conducting such experiments upon
human subjects. These contacts are even more bizarre and
difficult to prove than sightings, physical contact or
abductions for the reasons stated earlier: there simply is no
physical evidence.

Yet the problem, which occurs totally within the human mind, is
real and is apparently growing or evolving into the next phase
of the UFO phenomena. This insidious invasion of the
subconscious mind may herald the beginning of mass landings of
alien craft, the final step in the conquest of planet Earth.

If telepathic contact is being conducted by some intelligence
agency rather than by aliens, it seems to pose an even more
frightening threat because we are left with the mystery of
discovering their intentions for doing so.

People who have experienced this telepathic contact generally
do not attribute the phenomena to aliens from other worlds;
they almost universally claim they are being scanned by some
agency within our own government! It seems likely they
understand this intuitively, on a subconscious level.

The voices these people hear are real. They seem to emanate
from the air either behind or to the side of the contactee. The
words are clear and precise, usually short statements or
questions. The person may run from the room in fear, display
fits of trembling while staring at the space from which the
voices or sounds emanated. They may wave their arms at the
sounds, begging the entities to go away. They may scream or
they may even begin answering the questions or responding to
statements they are certain they've heard! They may begin to
blame awkward accidents (dropping things or spilling things) on
some unseen adversary.

Most notable is a periodic loss of short term memory (hours or
a day) during which periods they are unable to recall telephone
numbers, dates, addresses or even names of their closest
friends.

This suggests that the telepathic contact continues on a kind
of "holding pattern", passively rather than actively engaging
the victim. On the other hand, the contactee may be so
distracted by the frightening events that they are unable to
resume normal thinking functions of the brain until several
hours have passed even though the contact may have been
discontinued.

If this relatively new and undisclosed type of contact is part
of the modern "UFO phenomena", it may be very far removed from
the mystery with which we began some 50 years ago!